Sputcheon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈspʌt͡ʃən/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Sputcheon is a noun meaning (chiefly historical) The metal lining of a scabbard's mouth.
Meaning
(chiefly historical) The metal lining of a scabbard's mouth.
Example Sentences
She held her mouth slitted open in anguish so that in Inman's mind it resembled the sputcheon to a sword scabbard.
Schlussblech, […] The sputcheon of the mouth-piece; inner part of the mouth-piece, which retains the lining of metal-scabbards.
[…] [batte] de la cuvette, sputcheon of the mouth-piece of a sword-scabbard, or that part which retains the wooden scabbard (fût).
Mouth pieces and sputcheons will no longer be supplied separately, but mouth pieces with the sputcheon strongly attached will be furnished.
Word Forms
- sputcheons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include spettle, spitful, spong, sput, spittle, pilcher.
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